Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-12-23
sTRAsBURG ITEMS.

SrRAsBURG, VA, Dee H.
There is scarcely a desirable house IN
Strasburg to rent
Noah Funk, ir., has just returned nome
after an absence of over year spent IN
the sunny South
A larger number Of children IN attend
ance mt our Sabbath schools 10 plainly
perceptible as Christmas draws nigh.
The question now agitating the public
minds i'm strasburg- who killed the big
gest hog r.
Miss Mamie Stephenson, Of Stephens
CITY. has been spending several days with
the family of Rey. G.. A. Gayer.
The reason man in strasburg never
hears one boy ask another the question,
"Docs your mother know you're ont y is
because tho man goes to bed too early.
Gilmore, who is always merry and hap
ny, says: although his paper is defunct,
he is not 'out Of sorts and can still turn
ont the best kind Of job work.
Some Of the boys in Strasburg should be
made to 60 home after attending church
i'm tho evening. Loud and bolsterous
conduct on the streets on Sunday night
does not accord with proper Observance
Of a day of worship.
Our street crossings are improving
With the lapse Of time the rocks are grad
ually expanding, and 1t is thought by
some Of our oldest and wisest inhabitants
that before another century has passed
the ladies' will he enabled to step from
one rock TO another.
The "city dads, aided by two or three
OF our widc.awake citizens, are putting
down brick pavement, extending from
Main street to the b. Il o. depot. A long
needed improvement.
We take delight in watching the boys
and girls, with books under their arms,
vending their way to and from school.
We are reminded that these boys and
Girls are to be men and women Of tho fu-
turc, and upon them proper educational
and moral training rests the maintenance
of right principles in the social and polit-
ical economy Of our country. We can but
wish them God-speed in the tasks they
undergo IRON day to day in the school
room. As in the past there will be places
for the honest, industrious and perseyer-
ing boys and girls who are seeking an ed
ucation to fit them for the responsibilities
awaiting them in life.
Already many hands are busy in Stras-
burg preparing gifts TO bcstow upon loved
ones during holiday week. In our opin-
ion the pleasures Of such task carries
with 1t more real happiness than tho re-
cipient can possibly receive. Every parent
shonld teach his or her child to cultivate
such spirit II will create feeling
that helps 10 develop heart resources
which govern othor impulses that other
wise might become sordid to such an eX-
tent a. to wreck life capable Of accom-
plishmg much good. 4 wiser Being than
man has said at is more blessed to give
than TO receive
We can't help Int applaud the sagacity
and consistency exhibited By many Of orr
country merchants. They claim the patron =
age Of their home mechanics Gas a right
and when they want anything in the me-
chanical line they 60 or send abroad to
get il. Take, for instance, the matter OF
printing They 60 to our cities and pnr-
chase q stereotyped edition Of a circular,
the reading matter and advertisements in
which are made to do duty for thousands
upon thousands Of country merchants
All the change made in these circulars is
i'm the individual or firm names. Thus
merchants separated only few miles, or
mavhap i'm the same town, send their Gus
toners the same circulars. They all have
the same kind Of goods, the same prices :;
the same inducements are held out TO
BUYERS. and the same kind" ola merchant
seems to be running all these stores. But
this is not the worst feature I'm the case.
He may be a preacher, or leading light
in the church. and yet he is made the an
thor and dissemination Of silly anecdotes
vulgar and often llasphemous language
which would put to blush the hardened
check of q Baltimore fishwoman. Out mp
on such inconsistency, say we.
PICKER UP-OF-TRIFLEs.